* 1878 – Erich Mühsam, German author ( d. 1934 )

* 1878 – Aino Kallas, Finnish-Estonian author ( d. 1956 )

* 1878 – John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian politician ( b. 1796 )

Alexander Mackenzie, PC ( January 28, 1822 – April 17, 1892 ), a building contractor and newspaper editor, was the second Prime Minister of Canada from November 7, 1873 to October 8, 1878.

* Sir Henri Elzear Taschereau – October 7, 1878

* 1878 – Dick Grant, Canadian runner ( d. 1958 )

** Haliotis kamtschatkana assimilis Dall, 1878 – synonym: Haliotis assimilis, the threaded abalone

Prominent leaders include co-founders Lucien Febvre ( 1878 – 1956 ) and Marc Bloch ( 1886 – 1944 ).

* 1878 – Tip Foster, English cricketer ( d. 1914 )

* 1878 – Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian army officer ( d. 1928 )

* 1878 – Léon Binoche, French rugby player ( d. 1962 )

* 1878 – Manuel L. Quezon, Filipino politician, 2nd President of the Philippines ( d. 1944 )

* 1878 – Richard Girulatis, German footballer and manager ( d. 1963 )

* George V of Hanover ( 1819 – 1878 )

* 1878 – George Whipple, American physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1976 )

* Queen Victoria – the British Weights and Measures Act of 1878 defined it as containing 4, 840 square yards.

* 1878 – Emil Fuchs, German-American attorney and baseball owner ( d. 1961 )

* 1878 – Oliver W. F. Lodge, English poet and writer ( d. 1955 )

* 1878 – Alfred Döblin, German writer ( d. 1957 )

* 1929 – Pierre Fatou, French mathematician ( b. 1878 )

* 1843 – Alice of the United Kingdom ( d. 1878 )

* 1878 – William Merz, American gymnast and athlete ( d. 1946 )

* 1878 – Jean Crotti, Swiss artist ( d. 1958 )

* 1965 – Louise Dresser, American actress ( b. 1878 )

John Rhys in 1878 referred to the Solar Myth theory of Max Müller according to which " Gwenhwyfar and Ceridwen are dawn goddesses.

* Prof. Dr. Max Dehn, ( 1878 – 1952 ) Mathematician

* May 11, 1878 – Max Hödel attempts to assassinate Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany.

Max Dehn ( November 13, 1878 – June 27, 1952 ) was a German American mathematician and a student of David Hilbert.

In 1878 Max Hödel, who had shot at Emperor Wilhelm I of Germany, was beheaded here.

Leopold Löwenheim ( 26 June 1878 in Krefeld, Germany ( also the birthplace of Max Zorn ) – 5 May 1957 in Berlin ) was a German mathematician, known for his work in mathematical logic.

In addition to scholarships and fellowships, the number and conditions of which are settled by the trustees from year to year, the trust, from the revision of 1878 until 1887, maintained an annual Hibbert Lecture, the first series being delivered by Professor Max Muller in 1878 ; between 1902 and 1968 it issued The Hibbert Journal, a quarterly magazine.

* Max Van Rysselberghe ( 1878 –?

* Florence Kahn ( actress ) ( 1878 – 1951 ), American actress and wife of Sir Max Beerbohm

Emil Max Hödel ( May 27, 1857 – August 16, 1878 ) was a plumber from Leipzig, Germany who became known for a failed assassination.

Ludwig Ross, the German archaeologist appointed Curator of the Antiquities of Athens at the time of the establishment of the Kingdom of Greece, by his explorations in the Greek islands from 1835 onwards, called attention to certain early intaglios, since known as Inselsteine ; but it was not until 1878 that C. T. Newton demonstrated these to be no strayed Phoenician products.

* 1878 – Hans Carossa, German writer ( d. 1956 )

* 1804 – Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, German physician ( d. 1878 )

Gustav Radbruch ( 21 November 1878 – 23 November 1949 ) was a German legal scholar and politician.

The first German Rugby team was founded in Hanover in 1878.

* 1795 – Ernst Heinrich Weber, German anatomist and physiologist ( d. 1878 )

* 1878 – Ernst Hoppenberg, German swimmer and water polo player ( d. 1937 )

* 1963 – Richard Girulatis, German football manager ( b. 1878 )

* 1878 – Clemens August Graf von Galen, German archbishop and cardinal ( d. 1946 )

* 1814 – Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist ( d. 1878 )

The Reorientation of German Foreign Policy after the Congress of Berlin 1878 – 1880 ( 1974 )

* 1878 – Walter Katzenstein, German rower ( d. 1929 )

Adolf Friedrich von Schack ( 1815 – 1894 ) published a German translation in 1878.

* 1878 – Werner von Blomberg, German field marshal ( d. 1946 )

* June 26 – Alfred Döblin, German writer ( b. 1878 )

* March 14 – Werner von Blomberg, German field marshal ( b. 1878 )

* September 27 – Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel, German classical scholar ( d. 1878 )

The Association of German Cement Manufacturers issued a standard on Portland cement in 1878.

As a result, the Treaty of Berlin ( 1878 ), under the supervision of Otto von Bismarck of the German empire and Benjamin Disraeli of Britain, revised the earlier treaty, and scaled back the proposed Bulgarian state.

Many artists have illustrated the Arabian nights, including: Pierre-Clément Marillier for Le Cabinet des Fées ( 1785 – 1789 ) Gustave Doré, Léon Carré ( Granville, 1878-Alger, 1942 ), Roger Blachon, Françoise Boudignon, André Dahan, Amato Soro, Albert Robida, Alcide Théophile Robaudi and Marcelino Truong ; Vittorio Zecchin ( Murano, 1878 – Murano, 1947 ) and Emanuele Luzzati ; The German Morgan ; Mohammed Racim ( Algiers, 1896-Algiers 1975 ), Sani ol-Molk ( 1849 – 1856 ) and Emre Orhun.

It was initially adopted by the German states in 1865, ( from which point onwards till the middle of WWI approximately 5 % of every bayonet style was issued with a sawback version ) Great Britain in 1869, Belgium in 1868 and Switzerland in 1878, ( who introduced their last model in 1914 ).